Isolated Blurt Thread

[Tom Collins]

is this week ever going to end? 36 more hours ...

es for my fav lurker. You've made it through the humpday, darlin'. It's all down hill from here. I'll tell you again...stay the hell away from that story until you've recharged some. Saturday at least, and longer if needed. There's seriously no rush on it, cuz it won't be going into the category that the challenge requires.

I'm for bed now, and I think you ought to as well...*playing mother hen* Night, darlin'.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Ya know, when you are driving n a highway and see those semi trucks and one is hauling another one instead of a trailer.

Does anyone else see those and think they look like huge mechanical elephants doing it?

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

There's no way that's going to be enough to last another week.

 

[lil_elvis]

There's no way that's going to be enough to last another week.

Crim!!!

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Crim!!!

Hey elvis

 

[lil_elvis]

Hey elvis

How goes with the house?

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

How goes with the house?

Loads of showings with nothing to show for it. No second looks, no offers.

 

[lil_elvis]

Loads of showings with nothing to show for it. No second looks, no offers.

Bummer.

But don't give up hope! *hug*

 

[Aurora Black]

With the running gag we've got here about the lesbian werewolves, I'm wondering how many actual lesbian werewolf stories will be out come October.

Should we get a pool going?

 

[scheherazade_79]

Dear Linda from Green Flag Roadside Recovery,

We spoke for about 10 minutes this afternoon about renewing my policy. During those ten minutes, you asked me every question under the sun - my name, my address, my policy number, my mother's maiden name, my date of birth and how many times on average I go to the toilet each day.

I was patient where many people wouldn't have been.

But then we got onto the task of credit card details... I don't know what went wrong, Linda, but I ended up having to repeat them 5 times... and each time you received them, you put me on hold and gave me a short blast of Frank Sinatra.

I suggested that you wrote the numbers down the fourth time you asked for them, but you evidently didn't, because after "I Get a Kick Out of You", you went and asked me for them a fifth time...

The fifth time was disastrous, because I had a serious fit of the giggles. I find you genuinely amusing, Linda. You didn't seem to think there was anything unusual about asking me for the same piece of information five times.

Unfortunately, by the time I got to the 6th digit, I had to hang up, because the tears were streaming down my face. I wasn't being rude - I just couldn't play the ditsy-blonde-who-keeps-fucking-up-the-computer-entry game with you anymore without peeing my pants laughing.

I think I'll have to mail you my details. But I might call again if I'm in need of cheering up one day

Zade
xxx

 

[Nirvanadragones]

With the running gag we've got here about the lesbian werewolves, I'm wondering how many actual lesbian werewolf stories will be out come October.

* runs away*

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

1958 Chevrolet Bel-Air 4-door hardtop. Runs good. Blue & white. Rebuilt transmission. $850.

If this is in decent shape and still available, it's MINE!!!

 

[Aurora Black]

1958 Chevrolet Bel-Air 4-door hardtop. Runs good. Blue & white. Rebuilt transmission. $850.

If this is in decent shape and still available, it's MINE!!!

Wow, very nice.

*related to 4 posts up*

On the other hand, a lesbian werewolf story sounds like a fun read.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

*grumbles about things that sell way the hell too fast*

 

[Aurora Black]

*grumbles about things that sell way the hell too fast*

Damn it.

 

[MaeveoSliabh]

Damn it.

i knoooow!

The Bodyguard and i were joking about it on IM a little bit ago. Said that if we could get it that it might guzzle the gas, but i wouldn't have to worry much about insurance. A hummer could hit it and the hummer would bounce off and explode, but the car wouldn't move. People would see me coming and just get the fuck out of the way.

Sherman tank for civilians.

 

[Equinoxe]

"If I got the Arbiter of Fate to give you a body again, make you some bones and flesh, return you to your parents and family and your old home and friends, you would want that, wouldn't you?"

The skull frowned severely, wrinkling up its brow. "Why would I throw away more happiness than that of a king on a throne and take on the troubles of a human being again?"

 

[Aurora Black]

"If I got the Arbiter of Fate to give you a body again, make you some bones and flesh, return you to your parents and family and your old home and friends, you would want that, wouldn't you?"

The skull frowned severely, wrinkling up its brow. "Why would I throw away more happiness than that of a king on a throne and take on the troubles of a human being again?"

Is that a snippet of an upcoming work, Equi?

*blurt*

Note to self: Leave YouTube alone and get some @!&#(* work done!

 

[Equinoxe]

Is that a snippet of an upcoming work, Equi?

No, I am afraid not; rather 'tis a brief excerpt from a 2400 year old work of Chinese philosophy attributed to Chuang Tzu -- who happens to be one of my favourite philosophers, although, I believe the section that comes from is thought to have been written by his disciples.

 

[Aurora Black]

No, I am afraid not; rather 'tis a brief excerpt from a 2400 year old work of Chinese philosophy attributed to Chuang Tzu -- who happens to be one of my favourite philosophers, although, I believe the section that comes from is thought to have been written by his disciples.

Ah, I see. I just saw "skull" and automatically thought it was an excerpt from a Halloween piece.

I can't imagine why a person would be happier dead, though.

 

[Equinoxe]

Ah, I see. I just saw "skull" and automatically thought that it was an excerpt from a Halloween piece.

I can't imagine why a person would be happier dead, though.

Understandable.

Well, according to the skull: "Among the dead there are no rulers above, no subjects below, and no chores of the four seasons. With nothing to do, our springs and autumns are as endless as heaven and earth. A king facing south on his throne could have no more happiness than this!"

But that is, arguably, the point.

 

[Aurora Black]

Understandable.

Well, according to the skull: "Among the dead there are no rulers above, no subjects below, and no chores of the four seasons. With nothing to do, our springs and autumns are as endless as heaven and earth. A king facing south on his throne could have no more happiness than this!"

But that is, arguably, the point.

So it's about social class, then? Being free from the strain that such distinctions place on the human spirit?

 

[OhMissScarlett]

That fucking panini made my throat hurt.

 

[Equinoxe]

So it's about social class, then? Being free from the strain that such distinctions place on the human spirit?

Not entirely, though there are decidedly anarchistic elements underlying much of the work and it does tend to use reversals of expected roles and Chinese society to comment on a variety of issues.

The description of the afterlife as given by the skull, it has been argued, is more to illustrate a point, though. The philosophy of the book, in general, tends towards a sceptical bent (understood within the context of Chinese philosophy at the time) and has certain elements in common with ideas within Buddhism, and indeed Chuang Tzu was influential in Zen. At the same time, it is, in some respects, naturalistic and arguably practical: taken within the context of the whole segment of the work in which that anecdote is related, it is about inevitability of death and the necessity of accepting death.

To reference another part of the same book (Book 18 of Chuang Tzu, for the record):

Chuang Tzu's wife died. When Hui Tzu went to convey his condolences, he found Chuang Tzu sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. "You lived with her, she brought up your children and grew old," said Hui Tzu. "It should be enough simply not to weep at her death. But pounding on a tub and singing ‑ this is going too far, isn't it?"

Chuang Tzu said, "You're wrong. When she first died, do you think I didn't grieve like anyone else? But I looked back to her beginning and the time before she was born. Not only the time before she was born, but the time before she had a body. Not only the time before she had a body, but the time before she had a spirit. In the midst of the jumble of wonder and mystery a change took place and she had a spirit. Another change and she had a body. Another change and she was born. Now there's been another change and she's dead. It's just like the progression of the four seasons, spring, summer, fall, winter."

"Now she's going to lie down peacefully in a vast room. If I were to follow after her bawling and sobbing, it would show that I don't understand anything about fate. So I stopped."

 

[Equinoxe]

I think that may be my first double post.